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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Project Management

These are the 26 terms our scorer checks a Project Management resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • project manager
  • project plan
  • scope
  • milestone
  • gantt
  • critical path
  • work breakdown structure
  • raid log
  • risk register
  • issue log
  • stakeholder management
  • budget
  • resource planning
  • status reporting
  • steering committee
  • governance
  • pmp
  • prince2
  • agile
  • scrum
  • kanban
  • sprint
  • dependency management
  • change control
  • vendor management
  • go live

The eight questions for Project Management

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.What is the value of the largest project or programme you have delivered?
  2. 2.How many projects have you delivered, and how many on time and on budget?
  3. 3.How many people, vendors or workstreams do you coordinate?
  4. 4.Which methods and tools do you plan, track and report in?
  5. 5.How much time, cost or risk have you recovered on a project in trouble?
  6. 6.How many steering committees, status reports or governance forums do you run?
  7. 7.What is the largest change, migration or launch you have taken through go live?
  8. 8.Which certifications do you hold?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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